Make High School English Class FUN for Them and EASY for You!

Mark planning lessons off your (too freaking long) to-do list by joining the English Teacher Cool Club today! 🎉 

Skip the small talk, sis. I'm in!

Join the Cool English Teacher's Club and
BE EXCITED to get to work each day!

  • Go home at the end of contract hours + relax knowing that you're fully prepared for the next day.
  • Have access to standards-based video lessons for students who are absent or need remediation (orrrr days that you just can't anymore 😜).
  • Thrive in a creative community of English teachers who support each other, help each other, and laugh together at the ridiculous things you heard in class last week. (Seriously, it's the PLC you've always wished that you had).
  • Stop bringing your laptop with you everywhere you go. Enjoy Sunday brunch or a midweek pedicure without "What the heck am I going to teach tomorrow?" playing on repeat in the back of your mind.

Does this sound familiar? 👀

You already have wayyyy to much on your plate. You're running from one IEP meeting to another, covering a class that isn't yours, scrambling to get the last essay graded, and ordering a grocery pickup while you cover gate duty. It's A LOT! 

Mark planning lessons and collaborating with (only the coolest) English teachers off your growing to-do list.

Seriously, you don't need to worry about building lessons from scratch on top of everything else that you have going on.  

I understand what you're going through.

I thought that I could do it all. I cared deeply for my students and wanted them to see how empowering reading and writing can be.

I spent hours searching for ideas and creating "perfect" lessons. 

Then, 2020 hit and everything changed. People who aren't teachers just don't get it. It was a lot and it made me realize that high school English class as I knew it needed to change. 

I WAS DESPERATE to not feel so defeated and frustrated. ...so desperate that I did the only logical (crazy person) thing....I went back to school and got a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on secondary literacy practices.

I went all in and used what I learned to make the best resources for high school English students.

Everything changed for me, and I want to share that with you. You ABSOLUTELY deserve to enjoy your classes! 

And sis, let me tell you, what you've been doing is not sustainable.  You're going to constantly feel tired and overwhelmed. You're going to constantly be counting down to the next break from school. 

SIGN ME UP, GIRL! 🥳

BUT, it doesn't have to be that way! 

You can enjoy teaching without the constant sacrifice of time and sanity. Teaching is hard enough without all of the extras that they require us to do! 

Join the Cool English Teacher's Club and get 👏 your 👏 life 👏 back 👏!

 No more freaking out that you won't get lesson planning done if you're called into a SIT meeting, a parent phone conference, or a class where the sub never showed up!

What's included in the English Teacher Cool Club?

Video Lessons

Instant access to video lessons on everything from how to fix a fragment to how to analyze a poem (without wanting to cry)

Full Writing Lessons

Writing lessons to help your students feel confident enough to not use AI 😉

Mini-Lessons for Tricky Skills

Quick, skill-based lessons made with the challenges of high school students in mind

I'M READY TO JOIN THE ENGLISH TEACHER COOL CLUB!

Take a peak inside the club!

 

130+ Bell Ringers to Get the Party (Your High School English Class) Started

Test Prep and Review Activities That Don't Suck!

Use with any novel, combine with units that you already have, or get your students ready for standardized tests with activities that make them excited to come to your English class!

Literary Analysis Activities to use with ANY Novel (or short story)

 

Standards-Based Holiday Activities 

Everything from creating New Year vision boards to Writing Spooky Stories - and everything in between!

(Just in case you love fun, holiday things BUT you also know what it feels like to get a surprise observation the day before winter break...not that I'm still salty or anything. 😉)

📝175+ Resources for High School English📚

...and growing each month!😎 

I'M SOOOOO IN!! Sign me up!!

Don't forget allllll of the back-to-school activities to get your semester started off right, too!

 

...And Don't Forget that You'll Also have INSTANT ACCESS TO:

  • A private community of English teachers just like you - it's like a PLC and bestie group full of your people that get it😍
  •  Brand new resources added monthly
  • First dibs on any new resources - wayyyy before TpT or Celebrating Secondary Shop have access
  • Being one of the first people to access brand new, full-novel units + ACT prep activities 
  • Voting on most-needed activities and lessons to be created first 
  • ...and a few more surprises! 

Sure, you could purchase individually on TPT, but that would be $1,098.55! 🫨

Plus, you would not have access to the Cool Club Community.

...and you wouldn't get your hands on new resources + activities WAY before TPT sees them 👎

...and you wouldn't get first dibs on the ACT prep resources 👎

...and you wouldn't get to vote on which resources you need created first 👎

🤩 And just listen to what all of the other cool English teachers are saying about these resources...

"This is exactly what I was looking for- each template is focused and targets one skill.  This is perfection!!"

Stephanie J.

"This was the perfect amount of challenging for my students.  We were able to work on reading comprehension strategies and the IEP caseworkers with English Goals loved getting copies of the students completed work for their work samples.  It clearly showed where students were making progress on comprehension, and where we could still improve while being a topic that was fun and engaging!"

Erin M.

"Many of my students' essays begin to fall apart with the body paragraphs; being too weakly supported with little to no evidence to back up reasons. This is a great resource to help them see how to construct a body paragraph from start to finish! I definitely recommend this!"

Sheri J.

"I love this resource. It is perfect for the beginning of the year, especially to assess your students' basic reading skills. The activities are fantastic and engaging. This might be one of my best purchases yet!"

 Theresa W.

This resource offers a great variety of skill reviews. My students love it and can get a clear understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. I can incorporate mini-lessons for skills my students need to work on. Thank you so much."

Pamela O.

"My students were so engaged using this resource. There were several days our instructional time focused solely on the daily slide. I have looked for a resource that is this great for years, and yours was the first one I plan on using again!"

Leslee J.

"These products were so engaging to my students and students really loved that they had choice in choosing what they wanted to learn. It allowed me to offer them choice while still assessing essential skills."

Meghan L.

"Thanks for sharing such a unique, creative, valuable resource.  This helped me give my students such an engaging option, and they enjoyed this!"

Emily G.

"My students love mystery and suspense so this was a great resource. I actually left it for my students to do with a sub and heard great comments the next day when I returned.  This was engaging for many of my reluctant readers."

Karina C.

"Great resource! This was easy to incorporate into my curriculum. This resource helped supplement some of the content that was more challenging for my students to understand and made it easier for them to understand. Thank you!"

Stephanie C.

"This is probably the most straight forward and comprehensive Literary Analysis lesson and resources. It is broken down into steps that I think we can tend to over look as teachers, so thank you for this."

Kim V.

Monthly Membership Investment

$12.97/month

Check out what you'll be investing in...

  • Instant access to hundreds  resources for high school English (and growing each month)
  • Instant access to video lessons
  • Instant access to ANY new resource added
  • Access to a community of super cool English teachers just like yourself to plan with, laugh with, ask questions and celebrate the power of reading and writing 
  • Access to Dr. Lily Gates via Facebook group for questions, resource support, or collaboration
  • First dibs on Dr. Gates' ACT prep resources (including an ACT prep course that's currently in the works)
  • Ability to vote and add feedback to the kinds of resources that will be created and added to the membership 
  • Using the resources and what you learn from your new cool teacher besties to be the all-time fav. teacher at your school 😏
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Yearly Membership Investment

$130/per year

Check out what you'll be investing in....

  • Everything in the monthly membership - but with a 15% savings!

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You could continue going at this alone, but you don't have to! 

Teaching high school English is A LOT and it can feel isolating and defeating. Battling AI, plagiarism, other content areas that don't require things to be grammatically correct (I HAD TO SAY IT 🫢), and the pressure from admin can be so overwhelming. Not to mention, we still have to do gate duty, allllll of the extra meetings, cover other classes, manage behavior, and try to have a life outside of school.

In the English Teacher Cool Club, you'll have access to hundreds of resources to cut your planning time down and give you YOUR TIME back. 

You'll be an important part of a community of educators just like you who get it. Whether you have a great idea about teaching The Great Gatsby, or you need ideas as to how to modify a reading assignment - we've got you! 

Listen, we've allllll felt like we're working harder than our students. I mean, let's be honest, the apathy can be REAL. The English Teacher Cool Club will be a hub of engaging resources that will build your students' confidence and help them to feel empowered by literacy - not defeated by it. 💪

What are you waiting for?😎

Join the English Teacher Cool Club before the doors close!

I'M READY TO JOIN!